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This project focused on the strategy for seed production, storage and maintenance in the Northern mountainous areas in the context of management of climate risks and adaptation to climate change in agriculture. The video describes the promotion of community-based seed production farmer groups and the strengthening of individual and community level capacities to ensure continuous seed supply throughout the year while maintaining the seed quality in the region. By joining the farmers' group, members contribute to stocks and receive support and from seed companies in the area to ensure their outputs in the market. In addition, farmers receive training on production and post-harvest techniques.
Russia's forests are the largest in the world and yet relatively little is know about them. What we do know is that they are hugely important to the global climate and the global economy. But Russia's forestry sector has been in a state of stagnation since for the last twenty years. A new study, commissioned by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation and the Russian Federal Forest Agency, presents an outlook of how Russian forestry could look by the year 2030 and what that could mean both economically and environmentally.
The importance of prevention cannot be overestimated. In this environment of climate change and global marketing of agricultural products, we would expect that transboundary diseases and pests and threats to the food chain would increase.
Prevention is the only way to save lives, to save livelihoods and to save money.